During the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct which took place on Wednesday, one interesting section towards the end of the show revealed the game's main menu. One section of this menu was blurred out, with Sakurai teasingly saying that we'll have to wait for more news on what it might be, but one fan has been working hard to decipher what might be hidden underneath.

By zooming in heavily, excruciatingly checking out every frame in closer detail, and enhancing and juxtaposing the image, Twitter user @noctulescent seems to have figured out exactly what is said. In the Japanese presentation, the image shows 'スピリッツ', meaning 'spirits' - although, with eyes unfamiliar to Japanese characters, this may admittedly be quite hard to see.

in the japanese trailer, it's also visible, and it says スピリッツ which is the english word "spirits" in katakana ; not the word for spirit in japanese. pic.twitter.com/qatIqGLkde— l'attardé (@noctulescent) August 8, 2018

In the English language Direct, the word 'Spirits' can be rather easily seen, however. Assuming this is true, and the word 'Spirits' remains in the game at launch, what could this possibly mean? The Direct opened with Luigi's spirit seemingly being taken away from him, as part of the Simon and Richter Belmont reveal. While this initially seemed to just be a fitting way to introduce the Castlevania characters - and possibly still is just that - could it have a deeper meaning for another mode type in the game?

The possibilities are endless here, with ideas such as a much deeper story mode instantly popping into our heads, but time will tell what will come of this mysterious section.

Do you have any crazy ideas as to what 'Spirits' could be? Let us know with a comment below.

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Lol surely they could have blurred it out even more, or they could have taken away the text and then blurred it. To me it looks like they did it on purpose to see if fans can guess it correctly, or as others have said... Perhaps 'sprits' is a placeholder name or it could be a joke.

@Kimyonaakuma I really hope this is it. A new take on Subspace Emissary. We know there are boss fights, so unless they are just thrown in as random bouts during one of the arcade runs, I have decent hopes this is the case.

Luigi spirits dies.......then the final character to announce would be a story mood to get 7 certain ballz to summon a certain dragon to bring back all the spirts who dies to the real world and hence that certain character will be revealed............

We already know that amiibos will be reverse compatible, so I think it's safe to say, there will be a mode where you can collect similar power ups to level up and train your amiibos in.

I'd imagine this will be some sort of single player gigantic interconnected map, much like Subspace or Smash Run. Boss fights, character unlocks by rescuing their "spirit", power ups, and all the trophy/sticker collectables along the way.

After rewatching the direct.... I did notice that a lot of "boss" characters were fought one on one, Dracula, Monster Hunter dragon,And I feel like the way that Castlevania stage is made.... They showed two of them. One of the actual smash and the other the one that Adventure mode connects with. (Simon kinda goes up theses stairs that aren't shown in the actual smash map) I feel that stages will seemlessly connect to the world in the new Subspace/ adventure mode.... In a sense of you see the stage and when on it.... It'll become the regular Smash stage and fight the boss or whatever.